Company provides us a lot of opportunities to interact with our patients that helps to remind us the importance of our work. It is totally rewarding. Hard work and dedication is always recognized, appreciated and rewarded by management.

Cons

As the company continues to grow, we are experiencing some growing pains, but l believe it is just part of process to get bigger and stronger.

Advice to Management

Management should be capable of discerning the real good performers who can talk the talk and walk the walk and the pretending good performers who can only talk the talk.

I have been working at BioMarin Pharmaceutical full-time (More than 3 years)

Recommends

Positive Outlook

Approves of CEO

Recommends

Positive Outlook

Approves of CEO

Pros

If you are in the right department, there are fantastic job growth opportunities especially for mid/upper level managers. Working here gives you the tremendous opportunity to truly impact patients lives as well as learn a lot since the development pace is so fast.

Cons

Some entry level jobs seem to lack growth opportunity and they do seem to prefer to hire new employees rather than promote from within. But, hopefully this is changing.

Advice to Management

Invest more time into employee retention! There is a big learning curve for learning the "BioMarin" way of doing things and when you have high turnover you end up with a lot of "newbies" who don't know what is going on. :) The company would be better off to keep long term employees which seems like long term here is 2 years.

I have been working at BioMarin Pharmaceutical as a contractor (More than a year)

Recommends

Positive Outlook

Recommends

Positive Outlook

Pros

- Company truly cares for employees - Company educates employees on Rare Genetic Diseases and their research - Management and Executives show genuine passion for work and patients. - Many interdepartmental events and coolers

Cons

- Most new employees hired as "Temp to hire" but the "Temp" period extends for over a year in most cases - Pay lower than industry averages (depending upon department)

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